Wilton Schools Parent Education Series: Digital Learning Parent Workshop

Digital Learning Parent Workshop: Access for All Learners on January 23, 2019

Middlebrook School, Library Learning Commons from 9:30 am - 11:00 am OR 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Join us on January 23rd when Fran Kompar, Director, Digital Learning and members of the Learning Commons Staff throughout the district will present a workshop for parents entitled, Access for All Learners using Digital Resources. The sessions will be held in the Middlebrook Library Learning Commons and offered at 9:30 am - 11:00 am and be repeated at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm.

The workshop will be hands-on. Parents should bring a device, if available. The topic, Access for All Learners will explore ways that specific digital tools and resources help eliminate barriers and enhance learning experiences for all students. Digital Resources that are available as part of the district digital toolset will be presented. Please note that there will be ways for parents to learn strategies to help their child, no matter the age.

The workshop, as with our Ready-Access Program Philosophy, is about how digital learning enhances learning. Specifically, this session will explore ways to:

  •        Provide students better access to text through various modalities - Extensions that allow text-to-speech, de-cluttering of a webpage or YouTube educational video, highlight and annotate. (Just Read, Announcify, Read&Write, ViewPure)
  •        Provide students access to books and other texts in audio or online interactive formats - Introduction to the new Overdrive app, Sora, which provides easy access to thousands of audiobooks and ebooks
  •        Represent information for our youngest learners - Overview of databases and tools that are introduced at Miller Driscoll such as PebbleGo, BookFlix, Google Classroom, and Typing Club.
  •        Provide multiple means of expression - Overview of tools that are used to present information (We-Video, Padlet, Voicethread, Google Slides)
  •        Provide ways to access texts at different reading levels - Overview of online reading resources that allow for adjustments to reading levels based on Lexile levels (Newsela, Library databases)
  •        Provide strategies for organizational skills - Our daytime session will feature a 7th-grade student, Grace Bonita, who has used Google Keep to organize herself and is now teaching it to other students in the 6th grade Digital Literacy class (Google Keep)

After our introductions and tutorials, we will provide time for parents to try out the various tools with support from the presenters. We hope to see you at the sessions. Any questions, please refer them to Fran Kompar, komparf@wiltonps.org

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